A father is appealing for donors as his teenage son faces a life-threatening blood disorder and needs a stem cell transplant ...

In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up inside bone marrow -- the spongy tissue inside large bones where blood cells are produced. Over time, myeloma cells cause damage to bones, kidneys, ...

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A bone marrow biopsy is a medical procedure used to collect a small sample of bone marrow, which is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made. This test helps a physician ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spc. Christian Sutton and his team of nearly two dozen other young soldiers have signed up nearly 6,000 troops as potential bone ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have identified a key molecule for establishing blood stem cells in their niche within the bone marrow. The findings, reported in the January ...

Unlike aspirin, bone marrow doesn't come with a neatly printed label with dosage instructions. However, a new study published in Cell Reports provides clues about how the dose of transplanted bone ...

Researchers from UC Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed and studied a new material — engineered bone marrow, or eBM. Engineered bone marrow offers a better way to study ...

During ageing, bone marrow in the skull becomes an increasingly important site of blood-cell production. This is in stark contrast to most bones where the ability of marrow to make blood and immune ...

Butte is going for a record today to collect the most registrants for the National Bone Marrow Registry of any city in the state of Montana. Bette Bohlinger, wife of Lt. Gov. John Bohlinger, lost her ...